The shooting happened early Tuesday morning on Portland Avenue near 24th Street.

It has been a very busy 48 hours for detectives, with multiple shootings Sunday evening plus Monday's killing before the one Tuesday.

The coroner identified the victim as 20-year-old Charles Fambrough.

Now another family is spending what should be a holiday planning a funeral.

Neighbor Alex Richards dropped off a Christmas present for his nephew, not paying much attention to the nearby yellow tape.

"I didn't think nothing of it, I just thought (the Metropolitan Sewer District) might've been working over here or something," said Richards.

He soon learned the tape marked a deadly shooting scene just hours before.

"It's just crazy, it's crazy," said Richards.

Police got the call about shots fired just after midnight. They discovered the victim on the sidewalk and a bike nearby.

"When officers arrived, they found the body of a white male. He was transported to University (of Louisville) Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead," said LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell.

Homicide detectives are trying to track down who killed him and why, and it's not their only recent case.

Just hours earlier, on Christmas Eve, there was another fatal shooting and heartbroken family.

Twenty-year-old Dante Newsome was gunned down in broad daylight on a porch across from Shawnee High School.

On Sunday, 19-year-old Kenneth Forbes Jr. lost his life to gun violence in the parking lot of a liquor store on Dixie Highway.

Three homicides in three days, all with young male victims

"It's redundant if you will, sadly redundant," said community activist Christopher 2X.

2X said the homicide numbers don't give the full picture of how violent it's been in the Louisville Metro area recently.

"In the last 30 days almost, we've had close to 14 gunshot victims," said 2X.

In fact, 2X said he will spend Christmas visiting some of those recovering at University Hospital, something that's become a holiday tradition.

The problem of urban gun violence is a complex one, 2X says.

He attributes the recent escalation to a prevalence of guns and a readiness to pull the trigger.

He sees some of the situations as spontaneous disputes and others as planned retaliation.

"I think what the public's really frustrated with is there's no quick solutions to trying to stop or curb these situations. It's not going to be easy and anybody who wants to paint that picture, I don't know where they're living at," said 2X.

In these recent homicides, there's no word from police on suspect descriptions.

Anyone with information should leave an anonymous tip at 502-574-LMPD.